Manifolding account-book.



I W. A. PEPPER.

MANIFOLDING ACCOUNT BOOK.

APPLICATION FILED JULY 18,1908.

Patented Dec. 22, 1908.

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W. A. PEPPER.

MANIPOLDING AGGOUNT BOOK.

Patented Dec. 22, 1908.

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WILLIAM A. PEPPER, OF .TOLIET, ILLINOIS.

MANIFOLDING ACCOUNT-BOOK.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, WILLIAM A. PEPPER, a citizen of the United States,residing at. Joliet, in the county of Will and State of Illinois, haveinvented a new and useful Improvement in Manifolding Account-Books, ofwhich the following is a specification.

My invention relates to improvement in the construction and arrangementof manifolding books of the type now in quite gen eral use by salesmenin stores. Books of this class contain, usually, bound leaves, eachconsisting of an original blank and a duplicate blank folded to he oneunderneath the other with a carbon sheet or surface between them,whereby the sales-items written upon the original will also appear uponthe duplicate. The usual practice is to transmit the original blank orslip to the cashier, if it records a cash sale, or to the bookkeeper inthe case of a credit sale, and to hand the duplicate to the purchaser.The leaves, in some instances, are formed with stubs from which theblanks are severed after being filled out, these stubs being designed toreceive memoranda of the total footings of the respective pages, andserve as a register of the totals of the various sales for use by thebook-keeper in determining the number and amount of sales for the day ofthe particular salesman who has used the book. In other instances, amemorandum of the sales-totals is kept on a separate page, usually thecoverleaf, ruled for the purpose. In both instances, it is necessary forthe salesman to copy the total from the original sales-blank onto thestub or ruled-sheet, and this has been found, in practice, to result inconfusion owing either to the neglect of the salesman to record a total,or to a mistake on his part in copying the figures.

My object is to provide an improvement in manifolding account-boobswhereby the act of writing the total footing on an original blank, orsales-slip, will produce a record of the same in proper relativeposition on a totals-record sheet or slip forming an integral part ofthe book, or, and preferably, an adjunct applicable thereto.

In the use of my improved manifolding record-book it is unnecessary forthe salesman to write a sales-total more than once to keep the necessaryrecord, and this avoids the danger of mistakes incident to the 1 se ofthe book's hitherto commonly provided as before stated.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Application filed July 18, 1908.

Patented Dec. 22, 1908.

Serial No. 144,170.

in the drawings-Figure 1 is a perspective view of a manifoldingaccount-book containing 50 sales-leaves and constricted with myimprovements; ig. 2, a similar view of my improved manifoldingaccount-book, in this instance containing but 10 sales-leaves andshowing how the original blank is raised to expose the drplicate blank,both of which are to be torn from the b ooh and severed from each other;Fig. 3, another perspective view of the book showing the sales-leavesfrom the underside, also the totals-record sheet and strip of cart: onpaper which overlies the same; and Fig. 4, a broken perspective view ofthe totals-record sheet.

The booliis made up of leaves fastened together at a and consisting eachof an original blank I) and a drplicate blank 0 adapted to be torn apartat the line d. The original and dtplicate are correspondingly ruled andthe illustration shows them provided with credit and cash columns. Alsoattached at a is a sheet of carbon paper 6. At the lower ends of thecash and credit columns the leaves are cut away, as indicated, topresent page surfaces progressively reduced in length at the saidcoltimns. In the constriiction shown in Fig. 1, there are five series often leaves each progressively cut away as descrih ed, whereby theoriginal and duplicate blanlrs forming the leaves present from back tofront of the series, progressively enlarged portions which, at theirlower ends, are adapted to receive the sales-totals. In other words, theruled off spaces f, of companion original and duplicate blanl's in whichsales-totals are to be written, extend beyond the spaces f of the blanksnext underneath a distance equal to that between ruled lines on theblanks which are intended to receive sales items.

The totals-record sheet 9 shown in Fig. 4 is adapted for use with thebook shown in lig. 1 and is approximately five times the length of thebook. It is folded along the lines h to present five sections with linesruled as shown and numbered progressively from 1 to 50. In the use ofthe book, the totals-record blank 9 is folded back and forth on thelines It with the section containing the figures 1 to 10 uppermost, andis then slipped beneath the uppermost series of ten leaves. A strip ofcarbon paper 01 is placed over the ruled credit and cash colt mns on thesheet g, which colt mns correspond with those of the leaves. The carbone is passed between the first pair of blanks b, 0, when the book isready to receive the entries of the first sale. The salesman writes theitems in the manner indicated, for example, and places the total orfooting in the space The act of writing the figures of the total in thespace f car ses the same figures to appear in line 1 of thetotals-record sheet. It is to be understood that, as shown in thedrawing, the leaves and therefore the book are greatly exaggerated inthickness for purposes of illustration.

After each sale the leaf on which it is recorded is torn out and theblanks forming the leaves are torn apart to be employed in the commonmanner. The carbon 6 is then passed between the next pair of blanks. Thesales-total written upon the next sheet in the space f thereof willappear in line 2 of the totals-record sheet, and so on. A cash sale iswritten as indicated in the cash column of each original blank and acredit sale in the credit column thereof, so that when ten sales havebeen made the totals will appear in proper order and in the propercolumns of the totals-record sheet in the manner indicated in Fig. 4.

W hen the first ten leaves have been torn from the book thetotals-record sheet 9 is turned, or folded over on the line it, topresent the section containing the ruled lines 11 to 20. When fiftysales have been made the book is exhausted and the totals-record sheetcompletely filled. Then, or at the end of the day, this totals-recordsheet, with the name of the salesman thereon, is passed to thebook-keeper who can quickly foot up the sales and determine the businessdone by the salesman.

The gist of my invention lies in providing a manifolding account-bookhaving one or more series of leaves, each series presenting, from backto front thereof, progressively enlarged portions adapted to receive thesales-totals, whereby, when the latter are written in the spacesprovided for them, the same figures will appear upon a totals-recordsheet in the manner and for the purpose described. The leaves being cutaway as described, prevents their interfering with the lnanifoldingoperation which causes the totals to be placed upon the totals-recordsheet.

Instead of employing the separate carbon sheets 6, t, the originalblanks may have carbon coatings on their rear faces, and the duplicateblanks may be coated with carbon on their rear faces at the spaces Thesemodifications, as well as modifications in details of construction ofthe leaves and book, may be made without departing from the spirit of myinvention as defined by the claims.

What I claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is

1. In a manifolding account-book, the combination of a series of leavespresenting, from back to front of the series, progressively enlargedportions, a sheet beneath said enlargements, and manifolding-meansoverlying said sheet, whereby totals written upon the enlargementswillappear upon the said sheet.

2. In a inanifolding account-book, the combination of a series ofsales-leaves, each consisting of an original and a duplicate blank andpresenting, from back to front of the series, progressively enlargedportions, a sheet beneath said enlargements, and manifolding-meansoverlying said sheet, whereby totals written upon the enlargements willappear in order upon the said sheet.

3. In a manifolding accountbook, the combination of series ofsales-leaves presenting, from back to front of each series,progrcssively-enlarged portions, a blank sheet folded to present aseparate section for each series beneath said enlargements, andmanifoldinganeans overlying said sheet, for the purpose set forth.

WILLIAM A. PEPPER.

' In presence of E. M. MOORE, GEO. K. WELLs.

